Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-10
HORTICULTURE.
Prizes for Fine Peaches and Vegetables.
Fruit Trees.

Fruit Trees.
Correspondence of the Gazette.
PILOT POINT, Ten, June 8.-The Hor-
ticulturaI Society convened yesterday
with g large attendance. The meeting
was of more than usual interest, as pre-
miums were awarded for the best dis
play Of fruits, flowers ard vegetables.
The exhibition far eXcelled any previous
one, except, perhaps, the regular annual
fair. The peaches were large and Ius-
CioUs. the flowers handsome and
the vegetables were superb; eighteen
varieties were upon the table. A large
number of ladies were present, which
eCded very much 10 the interest Of the
happy occasion. The following premiums
were awarded
Best collection of vegetables: First,
J. A. Henderson, 500; second, J. a.
Drye, $50; a. NJ. Rsgland, honorable
mention.
Peaches: First premium, j. A. Hen
dersou, 500; Sc ond, J. w. Craven, $50
honorable mention, Captain a. H. r.
Bryan.
Cut flowers: Mrs. J. c. Newburg,
500.
Hand bouquet: Girl under fifteen
years, Miss Jennie Austin, $50.
Special premium offered by W. W.
Ross for best half bushel OF Irish pota-
toes: j. a. Henderson, 500.
Colonel Ross read an essay, subject;
Fruit culture, and what is necessary to
make it success, as follows:
To Pilot Point horticultural Society.
Fruit raising in Texas ought to and can be
made grand success, If VIC only adopt the
proper mode of setting, training and Cultiva-
Jlon. We have the climate and soil just suited
to make it the home of the peach, pear and APP
pie, but it IS to the former that propose TO
cou1ne my remarks. Our people know but lit
tie about raising an orchard. will mention Il
few causes of failure for which the grower
alone ie responsible. First, The setting of twice
the number OF trees to the acre; the second. is
pure, cheer neglect, and really this covers
the entire ground. 1t is almost
rule with growers to plant an or
char1 and then trust to luck. In other
words, they imagine the work done when the
trees are planted. What Is the result? Just the
same rs though you planted field of corn and
paid no further attention to It until you at
tempted to gather crop. In many states there
Is law against cruelty TO animals; In my
travels see instances almost daily where law
against cruelty TO fruit trees would be very
Just and proper Why are we to day, sirs, al
most Ia dark ages a orchardists IN this electri-
cal age of the nineteenth century, where
we SET progress written on every mile and tel
egraph post In all things: But in the raising
of fruit, as ! am sure,We have madeno progress
in the last fifty years; and in some things, |
think, we have rather receded.
l propose to Jay aside our gTandfathers old
clothes ard give few practical hints that are
Indispensable to the raising of fine fruits
shall simply allude TO them. as 1t would be
too lengthy in an article of this kind to go into
details The soil should be broken very deep
with pillow; set out year-old trees,i with
rows thirty feet north and south, crossed
eighteen or twenty feet; this Will give seventy
or eighty trees TO the acre and raise more bush.
els OF fruit than twice the number, as is the
usual custom Train with low head; bodies
two feet high from the lower limbs, the latter
TO be trained while growing by pinching off
the terminal buds during the sum
mer growth; tais is very important and
should by no means be neg
lccted; it viii cause the tree to make double or
tnriOBle its growth, as the old rodinary way,
and Tn : limbs will soon shade its body from the
much dreaded O'CLOCK sun. This, with thor
ough cultivation and keeping out the little
iborer pest, is all there is about It. In return
you nave frst-Cl SIS peaches, that VIII command
ready sale at fancy prices IN any good market.
4 tree properly trained as above, when two
ears old, Will bear one bushel, and Will be
grown IN three years and bear from two to two
and one-haf bushels
In conclusion will say TO the fathers to plant
out an orchard II you would make your wife
and children contented, healthy and happy. By
6ll means set out an orchard.